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[ 8 ] ANUNNAKI AWAKENING<br />

Williams went into the stairwell ahead of them, but a hail of<br />

bullets coming from above and below turned them back.<br />

As Dragon and Taylor retreated toward the door, more<br />

than a dozen Republican Guard raced across the gallery towards<br />

them, firing as they ran. First Dragon went down and<br />

then Taylor. More Iraqis emerged from behind the wall and<br />

began closing on the team near the doorway.<br />

“Taylor, Dragon,” Biggs screamed into his helmet microphone,<br />

but there was no response. Their escape cut off, Biggs<br />

was trying to come up with a brilliant plan.<br />

A bullet struck Washington in the forehead and he fell forward.<br />

Bullets were now coming from the advancing Iraqis in<br />

the gallery and through the door at their back. They were about<br />

to be overrun. Biggs braced himself for the inevitable. A bullet<br />

struck his right shoulder and then the left knee. He felt himself<br />

hit the floor. The pain pulsed through his body. He could see<br />

Washington, Stevens, and Williams lying on the floor. The blur<br />

of Iraqi boots moving around him. This is not how he saw it<br />

ending when he signed up seven years ago.<br />

He caught sight of Cutler sitting against the wall. He’d taken<br />

several more bullets, but he was awake and fiddling with a device<br />

on his wrist. Cutler pushed a button on the device and a<br />

pillar of bluish-white light engulfed him and the crate. Cutler<br />

and the contraband vanished. Then the light enveloped Biggs<br />

and he lost consciousness.<br />

Biggs awoke strapped into his seat in the GMV. Stevens<br />

and Washington were asleep in the seats next to him. The driver<br />

was also asleep. He looked at his watch. 06:32.<br />

“What the . . . ?”<br />

He checked his GPS. Their location showed as 38 miles<br />

southwest of Baghdad. The night before suddenly came rushing

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